A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse…

Fourthly, Know for your comfort, that if God be with you, there is nothing, there can be nothing but weakness against you. Isa. 27. 4. Who would set the briars ¹and thorns against me in battle, I would go through them, I would burn them together? What are briars and thorns to a devouring fire, to the consuming flames? no more are all the Enemies of the Church to the presence of God with his People: God will be a burning and destroying fire to all the Enemies of Zion; wicked men are chaff: Psalm 1. 1. And what is that to the wind, to the whirl wind? they are stubble. Job 21. 18. They are as driven stubble to his bow. Isai. 41. 2. They are as stubble fully dry. Nahum. 1. 10. They are as stubble before the flame. Joel 2. 5. They are like dust. 2 Kings 13. 7. Yea like small dust. Isa. 29. 5. They are like a morning cloud, an early dew, a little smoke. Hosea 13. 3. The morning cloud is soon dispelled, the early dew is soon dried up, the rolling smoke out of the chimney is presently scattered. O the weakness of man! O the power of God! No People on Earth have such a power on their sides as the Saints have, consult these Scriptures, 2 Kings 6. 16. 2 Chron. 32. 6, 7. Isai. 8. 9, 10. Numb 13. 28, 30, 31, 32, 33. Cap. 14. 9. No Christian can look upon the strong and mighty Enemies of Zion in a Scripture glass, but must behold them as weak and impotent Persons: Who could but smile to see weak Children to attempt to